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The Tachibana twins from Captain Tsubasa. This is ironically often their downfall, as their crazy combination moves often stresses and damages their body, thus they end up injured a lot.

Dragon Ball: #17 and #18 play this trope straight in Future Trunks's and Cell's timelines. They avert this trope in the main timeline, where they consider this trope in one-on-one battles as unfair. However, later in Dragon Ball Super, the main timeline versions of the twins finally team up as a tag-team because of the battle royale format of the Tournament of Power.

The Tyler Sisters duel in a team when they are facing two opponents. They also use the same archetype to support each other.

Kaito uses a Cipher deck, which focuses on controlling multiple monsters with the same names. He has several cards that can turn the names of his own monsters or his opponent's monster into another card that is already on the field and he uses Spell and Trap Cards that either support cards with the same name or opposes monsters with the same name. He also runs at least two copies of his ace monster.

In The Prestige, the main character goes to great lengths, so far as violating the laws of physics, replicating and one-upping a magic trick performed by a man who was secretly twins.

In Jane Doe The Ties That Bind the main suspect appears to have a solid alibi, being on camera somewhere, but later on we find out there is a twin brother, and even a third identical brother involved.

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Literature

In the Harry Potter novels, Fred and George Weasley act as tag team twins on the Quidditch field as beaters, redirecting heavy, self-propelled balls towards the opposing team.

Live Action TV

In an episode of NCIS, the team figures out how a serial murderer committed their crime with an alibi to back them up.

On Xena: Warrior Princess a wrestling show solves the problem of the twin switch by making twin teams compete in tornado matches instead of tag matches.

Professional Wrestling

This was played with by the Texas Outlaws, as both Dick Murdock and Dusty Rhodes were blond but otherwise looked nothing alike. During a match in The Sheik's Detroit territory during 1970 Rhodes made an illegal cover while the much skinnier and bleeding Murdoch was out of it and then immediately placed Murdoch back on top while the other face was arguing with the referee about the illegal switch.

The Batten twins, Brad and Bart in 1980s Central States promotion and WWC. They were actually baby faces most of their career and so the twin switch was mainly played for laughs but didn't take off in WWC until they turned and then started employing this trope straight.

The Harris Brothers, in their various guises (The Blu Brothers, Disciples of Apocalypse, et. al.), loved to do this.

The Power Twins Dave and Larry, whose work in Herb Abrams' UWF got us two more Power Twins in Ultimate Pro Wrestling. The UPW twins were not wrestlers however but pom pom girls who initially served the Ballard Brothers.

As did the Shane Twins (a.k.a. The Gymini, or infamously in TNA, The Johnsons [don't ask]).

The masked tag team The Killer Bees made this such an integral part of their act that, when they had a HeelFace Turn and took off their masks, they still kept doing this trick, as the Bee on the outside would quickly put his mask on and take his partner's place. This is kind of ridiculous if you think about it; we all know pro wrestling referees aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, but you'd think a ref would notice that the guy suddenly has a mask on when "he" didn't before...

It made perfect sense - inasmuch as anything does in wrestling - because BOTH guys would put on their masks, so the ref had no idea who the one being beaten on seconds earlier was. However, for whatever reason, when Koko B. Ware tried the trick while teaming with the Bees, the ref caught on. Don't know how that could have happened....

Billy and Benny McCrary were Tag Team Twins, as well as the world's heaviest twins.

The Haas Brothers Charlie and Russ could pull this off. Unfortunately Russ died before making it to the WWE.

Subverted: The Briscoe Brothers are neither Briscoes (the legal name is Pugh) nor twins (Jay was born a year and a week before Mark), but they are real brothers. They pulled the twin-switch a few times earlier in their careers, though - however, since then, they have gotten extensive tattoos that make it easier to tell one from the other (with Mark Briscoe's missing front teeth giving away the difference pretty handily). After all, it's hard to mistake Jay for Mark when he has "Jay" tattooed on his arm...

The Basham Brothers are a famed practitioner of the Tag Team Twin trick as well, despite the fact that they're not even related (just have similar builds and bald heads). This was actually part of an angle in Ohio Valley Wrestling, where Dough Basham deliberately altered his appearance to make himself look more like "Damaja" as part of an evil plan to make him his "brother" on Smackdown.

Mercilessly parodied by The Dudley Boys when they were on WWE SmackDown!, as Corrupt Corporate ExecutivePaul Heyman claimed, at length, that he couldn't tell them apart at all, and thus they got away with switching at will. For the record, one of them is white and the other is black.

They once managed to do it in TNA. The switch itself was done while the referee was temporary blinded, but you'd think that if he could see well enough to count the pin, he'd also be able to see that it was the wrong wrestler doing the pinning.

PGWA had the Oklahoma Angels, who they didn't even bother calling by individual names. (For the record, they were Kylie and Kyla Clark)

WWE Smackdown!'s Brie and Nikki Bella often employed this trope early in their tenure, when Brie was a singles wrestler and Nikki was yet to be revealed. They eventually got exposed by Victoria and Natalya, and then began wrestling as a tag team, still doing the switch on occasion, even after returning in 2013, after Nikki had gotten breast implants which Brie was missing, making them more easy to tell apart. Jerry Lawler kept pointing this out on commentary.

Subverted by The Usos. Despite being (fraternal) twins, pointing out the fact most people couldn't even tell them apart and being Heels, they refused to fall back on this trick. Then they tried playing it straight after a losing streak on WWE Superstars. An inadvertent version of this ended up biting them in the ass; during a match with The Wyatt Family, during a chaotic melee one of the Usos ended up taking a hard shot and getting pinned. The problem is that it was the wrong Uso; the ref couldn't tell that the one who got pinned wasn't the legal man because they looked so much alike.

The Body Donnas (Skip [Chris Candido] and Zip [Tom Prichard]) (who, like the Bashams, weren't really related but used similar hair styles, builds and identical costumes to play twins) did this on a regular basis during their WWE (then WWF) run, but had it backfire when one of the brothers was booked in a singles match against Ahmed Johnson. Despite the twins switching behind the ref's back, Johnson simply picked up where he left off and continued to beat down whichever twin was in the ring. Then the ref caught them trying to swap again and chased the legal twin out; he turned back just in time for Johnson to hit his finisher and get a three-count on the "wrong" man.

The Brahman Brothers (a.k.a The Sato Twins) are the kings of this trope in Japan. Back in Toryumon X, they were considered one wrestler and were allowed to compete in matches as the same person, as the referee couldn't tell them apart and was forced to permit it.

This was about all The Boys had going for them when Silas Young forced them into matches at Ring of Honor shows in an effort to make "men" of them. However, they showed a lot more(read:some) competence after Dalton Castle defeated Young at Final Battle and regained their services. This trope as was downplayed when they became World Six Man Tag Team Champs with Castle, who they'll never be mistaken for.

This worked against La Revolucion after their HeelFace Turn in WWC. During their title defenses against Doom Patrol the referee would question the legitimacy of even their perfectly legal tags if he was even slightly distracted.

Aegina and Luciana from Yggdra Union use similar tactics on a larger scale, retreating when one is about to be beaten and letting the other attack shortly afterwards - and until they're both on the same battlefield, the game displays both of their names as Aegina. However, there's enough differentiation between them that a sharp-eyed player can tell them apart.

Kirara and Sarara fight as a team in the Story mode of Magical Battle Arena, and even their opponents will comment that their being twins made them formidable opponents after the battle.

Eliza and Isabella in Custom Robo on the Gamecube. First hinted at when Eliza seems to have somehow got amnesia and forgotten all about the promise she made to Evil, actually revealed near the very end of the game. However, this can be spotted in paying attention to the parts they use.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has two battles like this in Dodongo's Cavern. Both times, Link is pitted against two Lizalfos, who attack him one at a time and switch places after the current fighter takes a certain amount of damage.

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Webcomics

Used against the York Sisters in Rival Angels. Damage Inc. beat up one of the twins outside the ring, and then roll her in while the referee's distracted for an easy pin.

Real Life

Twins have played collegiate and professional sports as teammates. While sometimes they differ in abilities, many times their skill sets are sufficiently similar that they can and are used interchangeably. Examples include Henrik and Daniel Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks, Markieff and Marcus Morris of the Phoenix Suns, David and Travis Wear of the UCLA Bruins basketball team, and Shaquill and Shaquem Griffin of the University of Central Florida Knights football team, and later, the Seattle Seahawks.

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